2011 Season
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"They say that if you smile, the world smiles with you, and on that principle, it is hard not to have fun when it is so evident that the actors are having fun too."
"To Empty Chairs great credit, they did not pull any punches, and the blood did flow. Without going into the plot of the play, I just want say Empty Chair did a fantastic job. "
"They say that if you smile, the world smiles with you, and on that principle, it is hard not to have fun when it is so evident that the actors are having fun too."
"To Empty Chairs great credit, they did not pull any punches, and the blood did flow. Without going into the plot of the play, I just want say Empty Chair did a fantastic job. "
Titus Andronicus
By William Shakespeare
Directed By Julia Sears 
In
the midst of a tempestuous political battle Titus Andronicus returns to
Rome victorious from battle. However, in the midst of his glorious
return he offers up the son of the Visigoth queen,
Tamora, as a sacrifice, causing her to swear a terrible and catalistic
revenge. When the new-crowned Emperor, weak and decadent Saturninus,
settles on Tamora amora to be
his queen, she and her family set into motion a bloody cycle of
violence. One of Shakespeare’s darkest, most brutal plays is a voyage
of poetry and emotional
intensity and a feast of tragedy that has reminded auditences for
centuries of the cold, hard taste of vengeance.
Many thanks to everyone who helped make our benefit performance at the Folger Shakespeare Library Theater such a resounding success !
Many thanks to everyone who helped make our benefit performance at the Folger Shakespeare Library Theater such a resounding success !
Twelfth Night
By William Shakespeare
Directed By Miranda Steege
After a devastating shipwreck Viola, the plucky heroine of Shakespeare’s comedy, washes up alone on the shores of Illyria, separated from her twin brother Sebastian. Her resolution to disguise herself as a boy and enter the service of the lovesick Count Orsino sucks her into a maddening web of unrequited love and misplaced affection. Amidst trickery, shrubbery concealment, and cross-dressing the "improbable fiction" of Twelfth Night revels in the joy and machinations of theatre and illusion. Directed By Miranda Steege
